Greedfall

The Intel Core i5-13400F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 580 produces a highly playable experience at 1080p in Greedfall, with the data showing that the Medium preset offers the optimal balance of visual fidelity and frame rate. At 1920x1080, the Medium preset delivers an average of 64.1 FPS, which is a 6.5% improvement over the High preset’s 60.2 FPS, while remaining visually superior to the Low preset’s 82.7 FPS. The jump from Low to Medium costs roughly 18.6 FPS, but the visual gains are substantial for an Action RPG where atmospheric detail matters. The Ultra preset at 1080p drops to 37.4 FPS, which is below the smoothness threshold most players expect, so it is not recommended for this combination. At 1440p, the Medium preset maintains a playable 42.1 FPS, but the High preset’s 41.9 FPS is nearly identical, making the choice between them largely aesthetic. The data strongly indicates that Medium is the universal sweet spot for this pairing across all resolutions, as it consistently outperforms High by a small margin and avoids the catastrophic frame rate collapse seen at Ultra.

How This Combo Ranks

The combination of the Core i5-13400F and RX 580 ranks 1571 out of 1705 tested combos in Greedfall, placing it in the lower percentile of all possible system configurations for this title. This ranking is heavily influenced by the GPU’s standing, as the RX 580 sits at the 53rd percentile among all GPUs, while the CPU performs significantly better at the 82nd percentile. The disparity between the CPU’s strong benchmark position and the GPU’s mid-tier status reveals a system that is bottlenecked by its graphics card in most gaming scenarios. The CPU’s average benchmark score of 25236 places it in close competition with the Intel Core i7-13620H, which scores 25201, a negligible delta of 0.1%, and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D, which scores 25365, a delta of -0.5%. This indicates that the processor is more than capable of handling modern game logic, but the RX 580’s average score of 13559 puts it in a much tighter race with older hardware like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570, which scores 13564 with a delta of 0%. The GPU’s closest rival, the GTX 950, scores 13549 with a delta of 0.1%, showing that the RX 580 is effectively in a dead heat with hardware from several generations prior. In Greedfall specifically, the 1080p High preset result of 60.2 FPS suggests the system is right at the edge of what the GPU can sustain, confirming that the 1571st rank reflects a hardware pairing where the GPU is the limiting factor.

GPU Role

The AMD Radeon RX 580’s 8 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus provides 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth, which is sufficient for Greedfall’s textures at 1080p but becomes strained at higher resolutions. The GPU operates at a base clock of 1257 MHz with a boost clock of 1340 MHz, and the memory runs at 2000 MHz with 8 Gbps effective speed. These clocks are modest by modern standards, and the 14 nm Polaris 20 chip with 5,700 million transistors on a 232 mm² die produces 6.175 TFLOPS of FP32 compute. The pixel rate of 42.88 GPixel/s and texture rate of 193.0 GTexel/s are the raw throughput figures that determine how quickly the card can fill frames. In Greedfall, the GPU’s performance drops sharply when moving from 1080p to 1440p, with the High preset falling from 60.2 FPS to 41.9 FPS, a 30% reduction. This drop is more severe than would be expected from a purely CPU-bound scenario, indicating that the RX 580’s 32 ROPs and 144 TMUs are being saturated by the increased pixel count. The 8 GB VRAM capacity is not the primary constraint at 1080p, but at 4K with the Ultra preset, the card manages only 15.7 FPS, suggesting that both the memory bandwidth and the compute units are overwhelmed. The GPU supports DirectX 12 (12_0), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3, which covers Greedfall’s API requirements, but the architecture’s age is evident in the 53rd percentile ranking versus all GPUs.

FAQ

Q: What is the best preset for smooth 1080p gameplay with this hardware?

A: The Medium preset at 1920x1080 produces an average of 64.1 FPS, which is the highest frame rate that still maintains meaningful visual quality. The Low preset reaches 82.7 FPS, but the Medium preset offers a 22.5% improvement in visual settings for a 22.5% reduction in FPS, making it the recommended choice.

Q: How does the CPU’s performance compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The Core i5-13400F has an average benchmark score of 25236, which is essentially tied with the Intel Core i7-13620H at 25201 (0.1% delta) and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D at 25365 (-0.5% delta). This places it in the 82nd percentile of all CPUs, indicating strong multi-threaded capability for gaming.

Q: Why does the Ultra preset perform so poorly at 1440p?

A: At 2560x1440, the Ultra preset averages 26.3 FPS, which is a 37.5% drop from the High preset’s 41.9 FPS. This severe decline indicates that the RX 580’s compute resources are insufficient for the combination of high resolution and maximum settings, as the card’s 6.175 TFLOPS of FP32 performance is stretched beyond its limits.

Q: Is the 8 GB VRAM sufficient for Greedfall at 4K?

A: The data shows that at 3840x2160, even the Low preset only achieves 30.9 FPS, and the High preset drops to 25.7 FPS. While the 8 GB capacity may not be fully exhausted, the 256.0 GB/s memory bandwidth is a limiting factor, as the card cannot sustain playable frame rates at this resolution.

Q: How does the GPU rank against its closest competitors?

A: The RX 580 has an average benchmark score of 13559, which is within 0.1% of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 (13549) and 0% of the GTX 570 (13564). This places it in the 53rd percentile of all GPUs, showing that it performs on par with hardware from the early 2010s.

Q: What is the frame rate difference between High and Medium at 1080p?

A: At 1920x1080, the High preset averages 60.2 FPS while the Medium preset averages 64.1 FPS. The Medium preset is 6.5% faster, which is a meaningful advantage for maintaining a stable frame rate, especially in combat-heavy scenes that may cause dips.

Resolution Scaling

The measured FPS data reveals a clear pattern of performance degradation as resolution increases, with the RX 580 showing its limitations most prominently at 4K. At 1080p with the High preset, the system achieves 60.2 FPS, which drops to 41.9 FPS at 1440p, a 30.4% reduction, and further to 25.7 FPS at 4K, a 57.3% reduction from the 1080p baseline. This scaling behavior is characteristic of a GPU-bound scenario, where the rendering workload increases quadratically with pixel count. The Low preset tells a similar story: 82.7 FPS at 1080p, 57 FPS at 1440p (31.1% drop), and 30.9 FPS at 4K (62.6% drop). The fact that the frame rate drops from 1080p to 4K by more than half at every preset level indicates that the GPU is the primary bottleneck, as a CPU-limited system would show a much flatter curve across resolutions. Interestingly, the Medium preset shows the smallest relative drop from 1080p to 1440p, going from 64.1 FPS to 42.1 FPS, a 34.3% reduction, which suggests that the Medium settings are better balanced for the GPU’s capabilities. The Ultra preset is the most punishing, with a 58.0% drop from 37.4 FPS at 1080p to 15.7 FPS at 4K, making it unplayable at any resolution above 1080p. The data clearly shows that the RX 580 is best suited for 1080p gaming, as even the 1440p results fall below 60 FPS for all presets except Low. The 4K results, with a maximum of 30.9 FPS at Low settings, confirm that this resolution is beyond the card’s practical capabilities for Greedfall.